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We asked our readers to submit their best lame excuses for holding a LAN Gaming Party in the office. By the responses, it sounds like some of our submitters may have actually used them in practice. The Top 11 can...
September 12, 2003
  • Shows how dual-processing 3GB-RAM CADD machines render 190fps, at
    1600x1200. -- Ryan M
  • Allows management to determine who gets laid off next month.
  • Gives a whole new meaning to the term "Overtime at the office" -- Ryan M
  • keeps our Plasma flowing in our 42 inchers in the executive boardroom.
    (You don't want to know what happens if the plasma stops flowing too
    long now do you Boss?) -- Owen Mathias
  • Have to keep the endians flowing through the TCP/IP stack or they will
    just get corrupted! Endian Corruption is our 24/7 best practice concern
    of the month Sir. Gaming packets are just the best way to stress test
    these little (and or Big) suckers. -- Owen Mathias
  • Help facilitate the Corporate "Team Building" initiative. Robert Hauck
  • We need to load balance the network -- Robert Hauck
  • Need to load test our new server. -- Robert Hauck
  • We set up a Quake game in the computer lab at the a high school for a
    professional development day. The draw to the whole thing was that the
    principal was playing, and ready to be fragged. Its nice to frag the
    boss. -- Mark Lachniet
  • If you don't use the full avaible internal bandwidth, the cat5 cables
    will go bad ! -- Rob Bley
  • The Company 'bots monitoring productivity will score participants'
    packet flow the highest. -- Gregory R. Hopp
  • Encourages users to submit their jobs in batch mode. -- Gregory R. Hopp
  • Gives IT a reason to learn IPX/SPX. -- Gregory R. Hopp
  • Solitaire and Free Cell just doesn't give people the full "multimedia
    experience". -- Lance Johnson
  • HR says we need to promote positive interaction with other staff
    members. -- Lance Johnson
  • It's a heck of a lot safer than last year's company ski resort outing. --
    Lance Johnson
  • It keeps the guns at home and on the computer screen. -- Lance Johnson
    Accounting shot down your project budget? Now you can shoot down their
    fighter plane! -- Lance Johnson
  • We are testing the ergonomic and physical abilities of workstations in
    a highly intense, stressful environment. -- Lance Johnson
  • Arnold Swarzenegger is running for governor or California! Let's party
    with a couple "Terminator" games in his honor! -- Lance Johnson
  • We want to get the boss to play, too so we can hunt down his game
    character and beat him like the dog he is. -- Lance Johnson
  • Someone has to load test the network! -- Jim Ekstrom
  • Had to "open it up" to clear out the carbon in the CAT5. -- Jim Ekstrom
  • The real-time graphics in the game are the only way to check network
    latency and throughput. And besides, the CD came with the switch! -- Keith
    Abbott
  • In this age of anti-terrorism actions, one cannot get enough free,
    physical security training -- Jeff Murdoch
  • Your parents complained the last time you had that many people in your
    basement room -- David Perdue
  • Like you really want the people you work with to know where you live --
    David Perdue
  • That's the paper figure...we won't know the actual network capacity
    unless we test it -- Nick Nielsen
  • Needed justification to upgrade network to gigabit ethernet Ihaab Dais
  • Needed justification to fire the entire IT staff -- Ihaab Dais
  • You see boss? That's why the department needs Alienware PC's. -- Ihaab
    Dais
  • By using the network for gaming purposes, the cabling gets a real
    workout. Those weekend work-outs improve the strength and endurance of
    the network, resulting in a faster and more flexible network. And all
    for the price of a few pizzas! -- John Wiley
  • We uplugged the network to keep it from overheating! -- Leo Jordan
  • My office has a better network than I have and better downloading from
    the internet -- Timothy E. Robinson
  • Finally, everyone in the office actually gets some work done! -- Rick
    Olson
  • Blows the soot out of the wires! -- Jerry Cardin
  • The switches, servers, and video cards need weekly load testing -- David
    Yu

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